Israel slammed on Monday the vote by the Polish parliament to ban kosher meat production, saying it damaged efforts to rehabilitate Jewish life in a country whose large Jewish community was all but wiped out in the Holocaust.
Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), reacted with “immense disappointment” at the decision by the Sejm, the Poland’s parliament, to ban on religious slaughter of animals in the country, calling it ‘’a slap in the face of Jews and Muslims alike.’’
Lithuania assumed its six-month presidency of the EU Monday to succeed Ireland as Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite paid tribute to Europe’s support of Lithuania’s post-communist moves towards independence in a speech to the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg Wednesday, concluding: “It was here, in the European Parliament, more than two decades ago, that the Lithuanian cry for freedom was first heard, and, with your ringing endorsement, transmitted to the world.”
Ahead of 4th of July celebration, US Ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, was honored by the Jewish community in Brussels at a farewell ceremony on Tuesday.
A US Jewish college student, who was stabbed to death during a protest in Egypt on Friday, was in the country to teach English to children and improve his Arabic, according to his family.
Some 400 people took to the streets of Paris Sunday afternoon in front of the Jeu de Paume museum to demonstrate aginst a photo exhibition entitled Phantom Home: Death, which seeks to highlight Palestinian suicide bombers who characterise themselves as ‘’freedom fighters,’’ as well as showcasing “those who lost their lives in fighting the occupation”.
